The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1904, Page 8

Published by whe Press Publishing Company, No. 58 to 6 » Park Row, New York. Entered at the Poy at New York as Second-Clase Mall M VOLUME 44... Leads All the Rest. During January, February, March and April of this year The Evening World catried 5087 columns of paid dis- play advertising. No other New York paper equalled this showing. The increave over The Evening World's own record for the corresponding four months of 1903 was 1270% olumms—more than twice the gain made by any other paper. HOW COAL PRICES ARE FIXED. \ The testimony of the coal road presidents before the Interstate Commerce Commission discloses the existence harmonious kind. » .No offictal combination to raise prices existed among them nor, in the words of President Truesdale, of the Lackawanna, ‘any formal advance-price agreement.’ But, as Mr. ‘Thomas, of the Lehigh Valley, sald, the _ presidents “did not believe in reckless competition,” nd when one fixed the price the others ratified and adopted it. And in order to facilitate arrangements this duty instead of being performed by the presidents Alternately was finally delegated, “informally,” of dotrse, to Mr. Thomas as a man of exceptional experi- nce and one accustomed to conduct business “on a care- tw) and conservative basis.” | Occasionally there may Rave been, as Mr. Truesdale testified, an “informal and Mmcidents]" “exchange of information,” possibly at jcheon or over the telephone, but never any formal ftcta! meeting to put up rates. ‘ The public has been made familiar, through the Schwab and Lawson revelations, with the present disuse of written agreements and contracts in Jarge financial among gentlemen of high personal honor, obviously bas its advantages. \ “WHEN THE DEVIL WAS SICK.” | A fortnight thet witnesses the dismissal of 2,500 tock brokers’ clerks because of lack of business and a @ay showing Exchange transactions to the amount of 100,008 shares, an average of one hundred for each comltiue to indicate a serious condition of aftatrs “the Street.” there are other and internal symptoms no less grave. The “big” exchange is suspending members for “splitting” commissions and disciplining others for {n- fractions of rules overlooked until the present period of depression. The Consolidated has become equally scrupulous and is proceeding to purge itself of brokers @onvicted of “bucketing” orders or found guilty of like unprofessional eonduct. We are promised that when | the Consolidated’s inquisition is over the character of that exchange will be further removed from suspicion than Calpurnia’s. “When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be.” There is more time now for moral standards and scrutiny than there was in the busy balloon ays of “Shipbuilding” and “Steel.” 6 A SOCIAL SYMBOL. ; In a Newport villa there lives a parrot. , It ts an aged and exclusive bird, having moved in thing but the best circles for the Inst seventy-five +, In that protracted period !t has naturally acquired, partly through deliberate imitation, partly through un- conscious absorption, all the gilded graces of society. Tt_can talk fluently and interminably without saying anything. ‘eit can laugh with polite hilarity, without being in way amused. “Tt can repeat infallibly what it hears, especially if the subject is strictly confidential; but it never commits the vulgarity of making an original remark. realizes that the most brilliant social conversation ¢prings from a combination of strong lungs with weak brains. It has, however, a few unfortunate shortcomings. It does not with advancing years use make-up on its plumage. ie It has never, as far as can be ascertained, indulged j the recreation of divorce. | Tt does not disport itself in the lofty game of “bridge.” (It is only fair to state, however, that it is gaving this occupation for the time when its mental powers become impaired.) | But take it all in all this‘polished bird ts an honor " giid-an ornament to the society which it so appropriately represents. PELHAM PARK ATHLETIC GROUNDS. Park Commissioner Schmitt, of the Bronx, is coming in for criticism, some of it apparently {11 considered, of iis comprehensive plan for free athletic grounds at Pel- ’ ham Bay Park. The Commissioner ts providing thero public use three baseball diamonds, a running trac’ range and traps for clay bird shooting. In the words of one critic this Is “a distinct departure fs it not an innovation along the approved lines of park development for popular use? Pertinent objections By be made to sume of the detalls of the pan-athletic the rifle range and the trap shooting. But on the theory that parks are for the people and | ~:< Jack, the Jester, Whose Merry Pranks Are Told in Four Words ~:<— of @ “gentlemen's agreement” of a rarely courteous and) ’ transactions. Where a law is to be evaded this plan, | moasium, lacrosse ficid, lawn tennis courts and fleliis | for cricket, quoits and archery, together with a@ rifle)» from the rural idea of a park,” and {t obviously is, But} quently “privileges offered; there are Coney Island suggestions simply areas of ornamental turf and landscape 4 is to be carefully guarded against intrusion hy itiful use of “keep off the grass” signs, the Com- 8 project must seem to be a “departure” in a ble direction. The amount of physical well will come from the “diamonds” ought of to justify this disposition of that particular grounds of Eton won Waterloo, the ; Petham Bay Park ought at least to Eun ber: year 6 Woodbury's “incompes to the length of time he TU i in NOW, SHALL I Bé WELL NOURI SHEDS, OTTERS TT FT TNE INLD PEI w THE »# EVENING w WORLD'S #2 HOME »# MAGAZINE. # The Woman Who Plays a the Races. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. playa the races fa of all ages nd of all classes. At this season of the year she is very where, During the racing sun ines] sete for her at! the track, and, ac- rding as she has on or loat, ushers in @ day af glory or) goes down in sod- den gloom. Some women who play the races place thelr beta with system. They really | know nomething of the race and records of the horses they back. These are Kenerally of the soclety or thentrival contingent, For the great majority of women bettors trust rather to luck than to actonce, and generally plok a horse eeause of a name that strikes their fancy. I know a girl who resolutely | played an outaider rejoicing in the name of Yollow ‘Tail all last summer, even after he was withdrawn from the local tracks and sent up to Canada, simply because “ho had such a pretty name” And, of course, lost money every time. But women who pick winners in thts way haye not by any means the same tastes {n Yorse nomenclature. The sentimental woman inclines to the Lame with a sentimental meaning Les Amour, Amorelie Lovebird, etc, recch her romantie fancy and empty her romantic pocketbook. That is, unlese her eyes fall upon a name| that suggest, that of some man she ta! or has been In love with, For tf much | |a name be among the entries she will | back ft to her last cent, and even when | she loses scarcely regret the money. | | Then there ts the lady of iimited | | Pockethook with a strong taste for the jMautteal, who makes up for her lack of the yacht she dreams of by placing | money on horses with names ike Mid- shipman or Flying Jib, or the Pirate jor Buccaneer. | There aru just aw many other tastes jin horre names as there are women who do not believe that a horse by any other name would run as well. Now, this system of feminine betting may not be very selentife, but in the Il HE woman who Opening ee the “‘L’’ Car Window. vt Nobody Objects to the Fresh-Air Chaps Opening the Window, So Why Doesn’t He?) Jong rin it probably pays ns well as any other: that is to may, It doesn't pay at all pleasurable ex-| — tthe fed by the dan-| cit a comes a JUme and got a | Mileration from Von ty alway ac jer that she may | msmbley, whieh | thires that oe xhilira again until heb woman who began | al small beta ‘Just rn in every | woman's pool-ro. reckless betting, and in aly |boarding-house from the fact that sho | | \ |hax been evicted trom it for non-pay- | ment after having run up bills for hundreds of dotiurs, Her husband makes a salary of #0 a week, which | any orimo for a lonely he hands over to her, only to discover | wruiy ever n few days later that she has lost W] husband tr in playing the races, and many a time | oier, as gone home tired from his of is at? locked out and ar 1 te landlady poring for money Which he did not know he owed Lily wife no longer Wouraikon mans bing dustinets to horse racing, Sho fre- | Are yo qents bucket-shops, and this winter | watet wt several thousand dollars whioh You + had just inherited speculating J] ray friend ynly to And him: are YOU so strang mave you say? 8, you a + and therefore on de reco: They have beeu Hunein as ‘tiny friends. WATCHING THE SHIPS, | things about tie aalae These winged seabirds outward stip At twillght-tide; I view them—with @ trembling lp, And wistrul-ayed Ah, happy sails! For you attain Your bright Cathay! De harbors ef my hope remain A dim Some Pay! just titte the to th y you loved ix lost in mist i TAArS; are Ups, with langiter friends, Of poria to be; Shall I await, in ike content, ‘The ebtying sea? Everybody's Magazine. oven 1 have a few friends to tea, snd Nou’ friends 0 tea, I supose. It Isn't womun, who tches a glimpse of hi none week's fo have a few friends to tea, suid ft Nad a few friends to tea didn't vou hear mo Mr y silent then? Don't wangry because 1 do nex sit and) window for your coming? giaid to see mo entertain ats It! My friends. »» of all my me home with a wry becanse you find a few sincere and sympathetic people taking tea with me, | and you make a cruel remark about MY von iawn momeman, guna ew! Pray Don’t Miss the Peewee ‘ Fudge” Idioto www Mr. Nagg IT can have a few] orgies tn atrkes. nd to the} Hin ) {nz Company, The New York World.) (Copyright, 194, by the Press Publi! although the weather has How do I know been wretched and upsets me so, as very well, for I have told Wilkinson tx a gam-| you ao time and time again, complain and ° You never find any chess) never what high | vou know bier, I know he Ss a gambler. m playing dominoes criticise about You look for shadows every- Smpulses have gloomily perverted. “Here you stand. “Why don’t you try to be cheerful} become Unhappiness Is all @ habit, » Why} “You complain about the weather, 1] your own home, with a frown on your not a minute in ompany® | How nicely Ww the distinetion! Becanse ' soo kind people who know V'to the loss of money, |! lead a most unhappy life and because | nnot stop KAMbIIng once they | they come to comfort me you class | Mrs, Terwilliger, the horrid old thing, | most siures j Told me right in front of Mr. Smig and Mrs. Gradloy | that sho would show me how to mix) one, And Mrs, Gradley, the old cat, | dd right In my faoe! I hat but of course I have to be nice | trouble ‘and “My fries are am good as your friends and a great deal better. I do The whips depart—joy-oonfident not associate with Col, Wilkinson, who is a gay man about town, although ‘ko wee bim belng wheeled around in his invalid char ope would think that but- ter id! melt in his month, “De. outmnd plagr - tage for The Circle Puzzle. Draw three equal squares inside the lange circte, each of which will contain five of the smal! circles Afi leaving three spaces BP aS CEE ie in New York fo When She Has a Few Friends to Tea That's the Time He Tries to Make a Show of Her! Yet Nothing Can Ever Swerve Her From Being Always Kind and Patient. face as black as night. “And yet I saw you coming up the street, and you wero smiling all over, but the moment you set foot in the house and found I had company your expression changed, and when I ran to the door to welcome you with a few words of cheerful greeting, and told you with a happy heart that I. had some friends to tea, you grew sullen and then commenced to scold and jibe. “You didn’t say a word, you say? “§Vell, 1 have told you a thousand times I would prefer you to criticise me to your heurt's content rather than to have you stand before me with black looks. “Don't answer me! Don't-say @ word! You know there {s company in house and I must keep up appearances before them, and you presume upon It. “There, how still it is in the parlor! See what you have done. Now those horrid old cats and thet smirking Mr. Smig will run ont and tell everybody how you carry on if I Gare to offer a friend a oup of tea! “Ob, Mr. Nagg, you are breaking my heart! You should be ashamed of your- i eet Do, not insult “Don't try to explain, mo by saying you late now! You hi fore my frien: — REAL ANGRY. Archte—I don't see you out with Miss Flutty any moro. love me, and she lawfed and said, “Not. in a thousand years!" mad, end J said, baw Jove, I wasn’ to my time galing « 9h Bhat Name i ne Ld = ‘That made me By Martin Green. oS. " Is “End-Seat’’ Alderman Playing for Bughouse Medal? 6 SEB,” said The Cigar Store Man, “that the peo- I ple are giving the hoot to the Aldermanic propo i sition to make the man on the end seat of a car hunch himself along.” “The man who introduced that ordinance,” answered The Man Higher Up, “is in the wrong line of work. He ought to be a promoter of prize-fights. His genius as an inciter of scraps is wasted in the Board of Aldermen. “If such an ordinance were passed Broadway would be a series of set-tos from the Battery to Harlem. There would have to be a cop on every car. The slugger would always have the end seat and the meek citizen who holds 1t now by right of first possession would be sitting on the floor with his feet hanging over. “An Aldermanic reformer has badges all over him~ self for foolishness when he takes a fall out of the street- car abuses. That ordinance compelling street cars to stop-on the o. p. side of the street was pretty close to the limit. This is over the limit line. “If Alderman Stapleton wants to make a hit with the people of this town he will introduce an ordinance for- bidding people to stand between the seats on open cars. Of all the hogs who travel on the street-car line the edu- cated pork who climbs in front of a man or woman sit- ting down in an open car, obtruding his person, shutting off the light and the air, is the most contemptible. “Of course, it is the right of any man to resist if an- other man stands in front of him in the narrow space between the seats on an open car, and the right way to resist is with a smash on the jaw. But the average New Yorker has all the attributes of a sheep when it comes to standing up for his rights. He is overrun and stamped on by the transportation swine and stands for it. That people can be made to keep out of open cars when the setas are all filled is shown every day on the open cary on the Third avenue ‘L.’ You never see anybody stand- ing in them, even !n the rush hours,” “Would the Board of Aldermen pass an ordinance of that kind?” asked The Cigar Store Man, “Did you ever know of the Board of Aldermen pass- ing an ordinance that would tend to the comfort of the people and‘ hurt the carrying capacity of the cars of the atreet-car lines?” retorted The Man Higher Up. Mistral and the Maids. A CHARMING ceremony took place’ two weeks ago at Arles, the sunniest town of sunniest Provence. There, in the heart of the Languedoc he loves, Mistral, the old Provencal post who has done so much and such good work to keep the language of his forefathers intact, gath+ ered the pretty maidens of Provence around hifi, and, klss- ing each one ceremontously on the forehead, made them take oath to wear no other but the old Provencal costume all their days and wed no husband of Provence who did not speak the language. Arles maids may wed with man of other provinces and parts of France and lose no caste, though few of them care for the men from the “cold north. ern climes,"’ as they habitually call all north of ‘Toulon; but A man of Provence who speaks not Provencal ts looked on as pariah and taboo. The Gook. RIAL PAGE oF THE EVENING FUOGE Don’t Judge Fudge tag NOTHING 194 By Its Smudge, f doing everything, Ite Redslokiest Achievements, J 204 EVERY- Copyret, 194, by the Planet Pub. to, ff BODY —Is pecu~ Marly and exclu Slvely the Fudge’s owk. Likewise the DREAM-BOOK Plan of circulating a newspaper so that a handful of papers revolving rapidly around the Fudge office ts made to passa Ughtning calculator several hundred thousant times a minute and thps establish a RED-INK-DAY RECORD of 999,999,998 coples per edition WE have thus tried to EDUCATE our 999,999,998 readers, but they AVERT thelr cars when WB havei been blowing OUR OWN HORN! Just think of ittf, * Such unheard of IMPUDENCB 11! ‘We try NOT to give the news; Dit WB DO TRY to smear and smudge Fudye readers with RED INK and to EDUCATE YOUNG children how to become CRIMINALS, LM sd ory murder stories on OUR CHILDREN'S T's sad that we can't do worse, Dut we arc doing the ‘Very worst now that could be expected. To-day’s $5 Prise “Fudge”? Idiotorial Gook was written by Mrs. C. Jackson, corner of Greene cand Throop avenues, Brooklyn.